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U-boat. U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicized version of the German word U-Boot [ˈuːboːt] ⓘ, a shortening of Unterseeboot (under-sea boat), though the German term refers to any submarine. Austro-Hungarian Navy submarines were also known as U-boats.
10 Top-scoring U-boats of World War II. Scuttled, 17 March 1941 after depth charging by HMS Walker. Decommissioned March 1944. Sunk by bombs in Kiel, 15 April 1945. Lost with all hands, 2 April 1943 after depth charging by HMS Stonecrop and HMS Black Swan. Decommissioned 17 June 1944. Scuttled in port, 19 August 1944.
The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies. It took place largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean. The German Empire relied on imports for food and domestic food production (especially fertilizer) and the United Kingdom ...
The German military submarines known as U-boats that were in action during World War II were built between 1935 and 1944, and were numbered in sequence from U-1 upwards. . Numbering was according to the sequence in which construction orders were allocated to the individual shipyards, rather than commissioning date; thus some boats carrying high numbers were commissioned well before boats with ...
Designated NHL. 1989 [4] U-505 is a German Type IXC submarine built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. It was captured by the United States Navy on 4 June 1944 and survives as a museum ship in Chicago. In her unlucky career, it had the distinction of being the "most heavily damaged U-boat to successfully return to port" in World ...
There were some 380 U-boats commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine in the years before and during World War I. Although the first four German U-boats— U-1, U-2, U-3, and U-4 —were commissioned before 1910, all four served in a training capacity during the war. German U-boats used during World War I were divided into three series.
German submarine. U-552. 2 × electric motors. Kptlt. Klaus Popp. German submarine U-552 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She was laid down on 1 December 1939 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg as yard number 528, launched on 14 September 1940, and went into service on 4 December 1940.
German submarine U-69 was the first Type VIIC U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II.This meant that compared to previous U-boats, she could travel further afield for longer, with a payload of fourteen torpedoes, an 8.8 cm (3.5 in) deck gun for smaller vessels and a flak gun for use against aircraft.